[PATCH V3 4/6] cpuidle/ppc: Add basic infrastructure to support the broadcast framework on ppc

2013-09-10 Thread Preeti U Murthy
The broadcast framework in the kernel expects an external clock device which will continue functioning in deep idle states also. This ability is specified by the "non-existence" of the feature C3STOP . This is the device that it relies upon to wakup cpus in deep idle states whose local

[PATCH V3 4/6] cpuidle/ppc: Add basic infrastructure to support the broadcast framework on ppc

2013-09-10 Thread Preeti U Murthy
The broadcast framework in the kernel expects an external clock device which will continue functioning in deep idle states also. This ability is specified by the non-existence of the feature C3STOP . This is the device that it relies upon to wakup cpus in deep idle states whose local timers/clock